Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

- Claudianus, Claudius

Best Quotes about Fear

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

13.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon